John Bennett
Senior Member
[ukvac] Super Loco known history & other rare stuff !
In message <XnhS2AAW$WA3Ewl$@emanator.demon.co.uk>, Clive Mitchell
<clive@emanator.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>Oh joy. To hear that tune again was great.
>
>To hear the tune in full, run super locomotive (suprloco) and step
>through the diagnostics with the F2 button until you get to sound test
>one.
>
>Someone mentioned the name of the tune but it's expired from my list.
>What was it?
>
It is Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The original LP track I have
posted to www.pyramidm.demon.co.uk/Rydeen.mp3
YMO BTW did an LP of Namco videogame music too, and a few other VGM
related tracks
Anybody want me to post more ?
>Finally, why was Super Locomotive so rare? I played it when I was young
>in an Isle of Man arcade, but I've never seen it anywhere else. Was it
>only on test when I saw it, or was it withdrawn for some reason.
>
I used to operate games in 1982 when the game first came out. I remember
seeing an ad by Sega in Coin Slot classifieds for a universal conversion
kit. When I saw the game I had to have one. Upon ringing Sega all their
allocation had been sold and I was told to expect no more as only 25
kits were produced for the Japanese & Euro markets. Sega Europe was
based in London and sold out of all their kits in the U.K. so none made
it to mainland Europe.
My quest for this board started then (1982) I tracked down a few arcades
that had SL. Pleasure Pastimes, Manchester. Ashworths, Morecambe,
Blackpool Tower & the arcade you mentioned in the IoM. BTW the IoM
arcade was owned by the same person as Pleasure Pastimes here in
Manchester. Suffice to say no amount of bribery would part anybody from
SL!
The Manchester one eventually fell fate to a fire :-(
The Morecambe one went on to be operated until about 1992 and then
dissapeared :-(
The Blackpool one was first Leisure ('nuff said)
The IoM I don't know ?
I put out feelers amongst the PCB sellers at the time and I eventually
got one in 1987 (yes it even took me 5 years!) for 200 from one of my
PCB sellers in Leicester who had located one in Japan.
Around this era I did keep mental note of unusual/rare games - do you
remember seeing/playing any of these?
Star Trek Cockpit - Sega (Mr B's Blackpool)
Red Baron Cockpit - Atari (Mr B's Blackpool)
Black Widow - Atari (Rhyl)
Hercules Pinball - Atari (HUGE! - Mr B's Blackpool)
SL is one my "project" machines and one of the handfull of PCB based
games that I would care to collect. The others are:
Holeland - Tecfri
Libble Rabble - Namco
Marchen Maze - Namco
Asterix - Konami
Cheers
--
XY-Man
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In message <XnhS2AAW$WA3Ewl$@emanator.demon.co.uk>, Clive Mitchell
<clive@emanator.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>Oh joy. To hear that tune again was great.
>
>To hear the tune in full, run super locomotive (suprloco) and step
>through the diagnostics with the F2 button until you get to sound test
>one.
>
>Someone mentioned the name of the tune but it's expired from my list.
>What was it?
>
It is Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The original LP track I have
posted to www.pyramidm.demon.co.uk/Rydeen.mp3
YMO BTW did an LP of Namco videogame music too, and a few other VGM
related tracks
Anybody want me to post more ?
>Finally, why was Super Locomotive so rare? I played it when I was young
>in an Isle of Man arcade, but I've never seen it anywhere else. Was it
>only on test when I saw it, or was it withdrawn for some reason.
>
I used to operate games in 1982 when the game first came out. I remember
seeing an ad by Sega in Coin Slot classifieds for a universal conversion
kit. When I saw the game I had to have one. Upon ringing Sega all their
allocation had been sold and I was told to expect no more as only 25
kits were produced for the Japanese & Euro markets. Sega Europe was
based in London and sold out of all their kits in the U.K. so none made
it to mainland Europe.
My quest for this board started then (1982) I tracked down a few arcades
that had SL. Pleasure Pastimes, Manchester. Ashworths, Morecambe,
Blackpool Tower & the arcade you mentioned in the IoM. BTW the IoM
arcade was owned by the same person as Pleasure Pastimes here in
Manchester. Suffice to say no amount of bribery would part anybody from
SL!
The Manchester one eventually fell fate to a fire :-(
The Morecambe one went on to be operated until about 1992 and then
dissapeared :-(
The Blackpool one was first Leisure ('nuff said)
The IoM I don't know ?
I put out feelers amongst the PCB sellers at the time and I eventually
got one in 1987 (yes it even took me 5 years!) for 200 from one of my
PCB sellers in Leicester who had located one in Japan.
Around this era I did keep mental note of unusual/rare games - do you
remember seeing/playing any of these?
Star Trek Cockpit - Sega (Mr B's Blackpool)
Red Baron Cockpit - Atari (Mr B's Blackpool)
Black Widow - Atari (Rhyl)
Hercules Pinball - Atari (HUGE! - Mr B's Blackpool)
SL is one my "project" machines and one of the handfull of PCB based
games that I would care to collect. The others are:
Holeland - Tecfri
Libble Rabble - Namco
Marchen Maze - Namco
Asterix - Konami
Cheers
--
XY-Man
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